Movable swift for cop-winding machines.



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No. 683,806. Patented Oct. I, I90I. ALSCHDEN.

MOVABLE SWIFT FUR CUP WINDING MACHINES.

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No. 683,806. Patented Oct. I, I90].

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MOVABLE SWIFT FOB GOP WINDING MACHINES;

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFTCE.

AUGUST SCHOEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO SAM- UEL B. STINSON, ROBERT J. STINSON, JOSEPH O. STINSON, AND THOMAS STINSON, OF SAME PLACE, TRADING AS STINSON BROS.

MOVABLE SWIFT FOR COP-WINDING MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 683,806, dated October 1, 1901. Application filed June 25, 1900. Serial No. 21,398. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: able arms of adjacent swifts arranged in pairs Be it known that I, AUGUST SOHOEN, a citiin connection with the support or standard zen of the United States, residing at the city for permitting of the shifting of the swifts of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia from their operative into inoperative position and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certo permit of the removal or replacing of yarn 55 tain new and useful Improvements in Oopon the same and returning to their operative \Vinding Machines, of which the following is position without disturbing companion or ada specification. joining swifts arranged in series in the ma- My invention has relation toa machine for chine. Fig. at is a side elevational View of winding yarn or thread onto shuttle-cops. the two arms with theirsupports or standards, 60

The principal object of my invention is to showing a portion of the framework of the provide a machine with a spindle carrying a cop-winding machine and the said two arms, spool or cop, means for rotating the spindle, respectively, in positions in which the swifts a support having tension rods or guides, a in connection therewith will occupy, respecweighted bracket provided with eyes through tively, operative and inoperative positions in 6 5 which the yarn or thread passes, and a riser connection with the machine. Fig. 5 is aview, for laying the thread or yarn uniformly onto part-1y in side elevation and partly in section, each spool or cop, in combination with a of the several members constituting my presstandard forked atits upperend to form backout invention for maintaining the yarn or A stops, an arm pivoted in the forked portions thread under tension in its passage or travel 70 of the standard and carrying at its opposite from the swift or reel to the bobbin or cop. end a reel or swift adapted to be shifted into Fig. 6 is an enlarged detail view in elevation operative position, withits carrying-arm conof the weighted tension bracket or arm of the tacting with one of the back-stops, and in a machine, and Fig. 7 is a transverse sectional similar manner into inoperative position,with view on the line no a: of Fig. 6. 75 its carrying-arm brought into contact withthe Referring to the drawings, A represents a other of the back-stops for either removing cop-winding machine provided with a main the reelor swift from its carrying-arm or windoperating-shaft a, carrying pulleys a, which ing a fresh supply of yarn or thread onto the are connected by a belt a with a grooved pulsame. ley Z), mounted on a vertical spindle Z) and 80 My invention consists of acop-winding macarrying at the upper end a spool b to bechine constructed and arranged in substancomeashuttle-cop, these copsbeing, asshown, tially the manner hereinafter described and arranged in series in the machine, as is well claimed. understood.

The nature, characteristic features, and c is a series of vertical supports or stand- 8 5 scope of myinventionwillbe more fully underards secured to the top of the framework of stood from the following description, taken the machine A, near the outer edge, in any in connection with the accompanying drawsuitable manner and provided with back-stops ings, forming part hereof, in which--- 0 and c for a purpose to be presently de- Figure 1 is a front elevational view of a copscribed. To each of these supports or stand- 90 winding machine embodying characteristic ards c are pivotally secured, preferably, two features of my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elecurvilinear arms (1 and (1, adapted to be shiftvational view showing the movable swift in ed or swung both in the same direction or in its normal or operative position for use with opposite directions to each other-and provided the thread or yarn drawn therefrom onto the at their upper ends with journals (1 and d 5 cop and also showing in dotted outline the adapted each to receive a yarn reel or swifte movable swift in an inoperative position for of the type illustrated in Figs. 1 and 2, wherereceiving a fresh supply of yarn. Fig. 3 is a by the swift in operative condition is held in front elevational view, partly in broken seca verticallycentral position above the mation, of the support or standard with the movchine A. In the operative and inoperative ico positions of the arms d and d they are supported or held by the back-stops c and c of the standard 0, which also limit the ranges of movement respectively of the said arms carrying the reels or swifts.

f is a vertical support or arm secured to the front of the machine A, and at the upper end of each support or arm is located and carried a longitudinal tension-rodf. This rodf' has fixed thereto a link f which carries a second longitudinal tension-rod f Extending from the front of the machine, beneath the cop or bobbin If, is a bracket G, provided with a weight g and with two eyes 9 and g This bracket G is pivoted to the framework of the machine, as at 9 and its downward movement is limited by a stop 9 which impinges upon or against said framework of the machine. Intermediate of the two eyes g and g of the weighted bracket G is arranged the forked end of a fixed arm H, over which the thread T passes in its travel from the eye g to the eye 9 as clearly illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7. The bracket G has also a projection under which the thread T passes. The weighted bracket G is thus adapted to maintain the thread or yarn T taut in its passage from the reel or swift to the bobbin or spindle,and thereby causing greater uniformity in the laying up of the yarn or thread on the bobbin for subsequent use.

his a riser adapted to lay the yarn or thread T uniformly onto the shuttle-spindle b or bobbin 19 The reels or swifts, as illustrated in series in Fig. 2, can be readily and quickly shifted from their normal position, as illustrated in full lines in Fig. 2, and held in their inoperative position, as illustrated in dotted lines in said figure, by one of the back-stops c and 0 thus saving labor and time, as well as maintaining the yarn in a cleanly condition during replacing on the reel or swift and avoidance of breakage of the yarn or threads of companion or adjoining yarn-containing reels or swifts of the machine.

The operation of the machine hereinbefore described is as follows: The yarn being placed on the movable reels or swifts and the reels or swifts then caused to assume the positions illustrated in full lines in Figs. 1 and 2, the yarnfor thread is then passed in the opera tion of the machine after power is applied to the main driving-shaft a, operating the spindles of the shuttle-cops b over and under the two tension-rods f and f then through, respectively, the eyes 9 and g of the weighted bracket G, and by the riser h the thread or yarn will be laid uniformly onto the bobbinspindle b or bobbin 12 according to the condition of the bobbin-spindle b in and during the operation of the machine.

Having thus described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a machine of the character described, a spindle carrying a spool or cop, means for rotating the spindle, a support having tension rods or guides, a weighted bracket provided with eyes through which the yarn or thread passes and a riser for laying the thread uniformly onto each spool or cop, in combination with a standard forked at its upper end to form back-stops, an arm pivoted in the forked portions of the standard and carrying at its opposite end a reel or swift adapted to be shifted into operative position with its carryin g-arm contacting with one of the back-stops and in a similar manner into inoperative position with its carrying-arm brought into contact with the other of the back-stops for either removing the reel or swift from its carryingarm or winding a fresh supply of yarn or thread onto the same.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST SCHOEN. Witnesses:

J. WALTER DOUGLASS, THOMAS M. SMITH. 

